Door-hanger.



1-". 0. HANSON.

DOOR HANGER.

APPLICATION IILBD JAN. 8, 190a.

Patented June 15; 1909."

UNITED STATES ATEN QFICE.

FRANCIS O. HANSON, 6F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

DOOR-HANGER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIs O. HANsoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Hangers.

This invention relates to improvements in door hangers more particularlyadapted for use with elevator doors and the like, and the primary objectof the invention is to provide an improved, simple, durable and cheaphanger for the doors which may be readily applied and which is adaptedto be easily adjusted whereby the doors may be raised or lowered withrelation to the door opening without removing them after having beenonce hung.

A further object is to provide improved means for preventing the hangerfrom leaving the track, and a further object is to provide an improvedbumper for the hanger.

To the attainment of these ends and the accomplishment of other new anduseful objects, as will appear, the invention consists in the featuresof novelty in the construction, combination and arrangement of theseveral parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed and shown inthe accompanying drawing illustrating an embodiment of the invention andin which" Figure 1 is a detail elevation of an elevator door havinghangers constructed in accordance with the principles of this inventionapplied thereto. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of one of the hangers. Fig. 3is a side elevation of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view takenon line e14 of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawing and in the presentexemplificatien of the invention, the hanger proper comprises twosections 10 and 11. The section 10 constitutes the body portion of thehanger and is provided with an off set portion 12 adjacent the upperextremity thereof and intermedi ate its ends, and secured to the face ofthe member 10 adjacent the off set portion 12 is a member 13 which isprovided with an off set portion intermediate its extremities and saidoff set portion is located adjacent the off set portion 12 to form ahousing for a pulley 14. The member 13 may be secured to the member 10in any desired or suitable manner preferably by means of belts or rivets15. The pulley 141 is located to one side of the member 10 and isadapted to rest and travel upon a suitable supporting track 16, and

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. January 8, 1908.

Patented June 15, 1909.

Serial No. 109,810.

projecting laterally from the face of the member 10 is a lug orextension 17 which extends below the track 16 and serves as a means forpreventing the hanger from jumping the track. The opposite face of themember 10 adjacent the lower extremity is provided with a series ofgrooves or corrugations 18, and one face of the upper extremity of themember 11 is provided with similar corrugations 19 adapted to engage thecorrugations 18 when the members 10 and 1.1 are over lapped. One of themembers, preferably the member 11, is provided with slots or apertures20 adjacent the upper extremity thereof and passing through the othermember are screws or bolts 21, which extend through the slots orapertures 20, and a nut 22 engages the free extremities of the screws orbolts for clamping the extremities of the members 10 and 11 together.

The member 1 1 is provided with a laterally projecting flange 23 whichis preferably located so as to extend below the lug or projection 17 andthe track 16 andthis flange 23 serves as a means by which the section 11of the hanger may be secured to the door 24.

Any suitable fastening means may be provided for securing the door andhanger section together and in the present exemplification of theinvention screws or bolts 25 are provided for this purpose.

Projecting laterally from the face of the member 11 preferably the faceopposite to that from which the flange 23 extends and located adjacentthe upper extremity thereof are ears or lugs 26 and secured to anysuitable support, preferably the track 16, and adjacent the extremitiesthereof, are bumpers 27 which are arranged in the path of movement ofthe ears or lugs 26 when the hanger is moved upon the track 16, so thatwhen the doors 241 are opened, the respective ear or lug 26 will engagethe bumper 27 when the door reaches the limit of its movement to preventthe parts from being arred.

With the improved construction it will be apparent that when the hangeris secured to the door and the pulley 141 placed upon the track 16, theoverlapping members 10 and 11 may be adjusted with respect to each otherto raise and lower the door with respect to the door opening and theentire'hanger will be located substantially within the planes formed bythe faces of the door, whereby a compact construction will be producedso that the hanger will not project beyond the faces of the door. Inorder to adjust the members 10 and 1]. with relation to each other, allthat is necessary is to loosen the nuts 22 on the bolts 21 to permit oneof the sections to be moved laterally with respect to the other todisengage the grooves or corrugations l8 and 19 thereon, after which oneof the sections may be moved vertically with respect to the other toraise or lower the door, the slots 20 in one of the members permittingsuch adjustment. When the door has been properly adjusted, the twosections may be placed together again so that the grooves orcorrugations 18 and 19 will intermesh and the nuts 22 may be tightenedon the bolts 21 to secure the parts together.

In the present exemplilication of the invention Fig- 1 shows in detailelevation the door opening of an elevator well or shaft including thespaced uprights 28, across which is secured a suitable support, such asa beam 29 or the like and to which the track 16 is secured and spacedtherefrom in any desired or suitable manner, also the mechanism by whichthe door sections may be operated in unison, but the construction andoperation of such mechanism forms no part of the present invention.

In order that the invention might be fully understood by those skilledin the art, the details of the foregoing embodiment thereof have beenthus specifically described but What I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is In combination, a door, a hanger con1prisingseparable members having overlapping portions, said members beingadjustable with respect to each other, means for securing the members intheir adjusted position, one of the said members being secured to theedge of the door and being provided with a lateral projection extendingbeyond one face thereof, a pulley journaled to the other member theentire hanger being located substantially within the planes formed bythe faces of the door, a track upon which the pulley is adapted totravel, and a bumper arranged within the path of movement of the saidpro jection and adapted to be engaged by the projection when the hangerhas reached the limit of its travel in one direction, the said othermember of the hanger being provided with a projection extending from oneface thereof below the track for preventing displacement of the pulleywith relation to the track.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 3rd day of January A. D.1908.

FRANCIS O. HANSON.

Witnesses:

NANCY E. PENGE, JOHN B. HARDEBECK.

